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This enamelware pitcher was recovered during the 2007 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Thomas Johnson/ Henry Williams Dugout site. The pitcher is decorated with marbled cobalt blue and white enamelware, a process first invented in Germany in the 1760s as a way to coat iron so as to prevent rust and a metallic taste in food and drink. In America enamelware production began in the 1870s and continued until the 1930s. For this piece, after its life as a pitcher had passed, it served as a target, being hit at least seven times. The Thomas Johnson/ Henry Williams Dugout site was a domestic site related to the settlement of Nicodemus, an all black community in western Kansas.
Date: 1877-1910
Item Number: 440127
Call Number: 14GH102-308-2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 440127
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - 360-degree views
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking - Drinking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams dugout
People - African Americans
People - African Americans - Exodusters
Places - Cities and towns - Nicodemus
Places - Counties - Graham
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
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